We might not be Amazon's best customers, and it took approximately four minutes to download seven albums, but we are pleased with the service.

We could play and download the albums, both vinyl and CD, and of course there were some that we had forgotten that we had even bought in the first place.

Because they have been loaded into the Amazon Cloud Player the content is available online and through whatever hardware on which you have installed the player.

"What would you say if you bought CDs, vinyl or even cassettes from a company 14 years ago, and then 14 years later that company licensed the rights from the record companies to give you the MP3 versions of those albums... and then to top it off, did that for you automatically and for free?" said Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos.

"Well, starting today, it's available to all of our Amazon.co.uk customers - past, present, and future - at no cost. We love these opportunities to do something extra for our customers."

Amazon customers can get digital copies of their CDs and LPs dating back to 1999. Amazon is also offering digital copies of cassette tapes, a format that some people cannot even recognise.